Donna Shalala Quotes
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.
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I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.
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It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
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I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
